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The genesis of the Civil War : the story of Sumter, 1860-1861

Authors:Samuel Wylie Crawford (Author), Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University Libraries)

Summary:Annotation: Samuel Crawford, a medical officer working with Major Robert Anderson, unfolds the story of the first shots fired at Fort Sumter--and the events that led to the national struggle between the North and the South in the war for the union of the States. His account was originally published in 1887

Print Book, English, 1887

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: C.L. Webster & Company, New York, NY, 1887

Genre:engravings (prints)

Physical Description:xxiv, 486 pages : frontispiece (8 portrait) illustrations (including plans, facsimiles) double plan ; 24 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1591687

Subjects:

Caroline du Sud Histoire 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)

États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1861-1865

Fort Sumter (Charleston, Car. du S.)

Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)

Politics and government

South Carolina Charleston Fort Sumter

South Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

engravings (prints)

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Genesis of the Civil War.

Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 1827-1892.

Notes:

Same as his "History of the fall of Fort Sumpter," 1896, with list of illustrations and plan added

More Information:

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